Michael Malik wrote:
> Connie,
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> I just had this happen last night on yet another system; this time an 
> i386 (I was playing around on a test system to see if I could reproduce 
> the errors).  It seems that when I updated all of my packages with all 
> of the repos checked (one or two at a time) in yumex it causes this 
> problem.
> 
> I was watching it this time, and I observed the moment when it happened 
> -- it was during the atrpms repo update, where yumex came back with the 
> usual "package update complete", and then right after I clicked "ok" it 
> froze with another window which gave a transaction failure notice (this 
> should have happened BEFORE the update was carried out).  The failure 
> notice was on the screen for less than a second, so I couldn't make out 
> the exact package(s) in conflict or missing.
> 
> At this point the yumex application froze and never came back.  Fearing 
> there may be partial installs, I tried the update again (new yumex 
> session).  This time there were very few package updates which would 
> pass the transaction test (listing python missing deps and freetype 
> conflicts).
> 
> Once again, this is not any attack on atrpms -- I have no idea what has 
> caused this.  I can only suspect there is some bug in yum which is only 
> exposed under certain conditions, or some problem with one or more of 
> the packages in one or more of the repos.
> 
> I will certainly be more cautious when selecting repos in the future. 
> However, it would have been nice to know which combinations would result 
> in conflicts and overall chaos.  I also did not imagine that yum/yumex 
> would allow the system to break so easily (and thoroughly), especially 
> on a stable distribution.
> 
> In any case, I now have several backup/rebuild/restore jobs (so much for 
> the long weekend! :-)).
> 
> Still, I wanted to let you guys know I really appreciate the work you 
> continue to do with the distribution, repo management, and this support 
> list (and I'm sure that is no small task!). -Michael


The normal use of repositories is to use only the preselected SL ones, sl-base and 
sl-errata. Use one of the other repositories only for installing some extra application 
you need and is not included in sl-base and sl-errata.